There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

  • -- Marcus Annaeus Seneca 马库斯·安纳尤斯·塞内卡

让我们惊慌的事情比伤害我们的事情要多,我们在忧虑中遭受的痛苦比在现实中遭受的痛苦还要多。

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The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.

在疾病开始时的最早的感觉,通常是在识别出可识别的症状之前,是恐惧。有些地方出了问题,死亡的一瞥在脑海深处的某个地方发生了变化。这是我们最古老的恐惧。

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.

当今公众对科学的焦虑,很大程度上是一种担忧,即我们可能永远以对部分事物无休止的、强迫性的关注来忽视整体。

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

对于年轻人来说,每过一个生日,大多数事情的愤怒就会激增。